Years to VictoryMcKay, 1973 - 507 Seiten "Beginning with 'the loneliest man in the world,' General Dwight D. Eisenhower, making his decision to proceed with Operation Overlord, Years to Victory recounts the last years of World War II from the Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, to the utter defeat and unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan. As the dignitaries assembled on the deck of the United States battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay on the morning of September 2, 1945, the Axis had been totally destroyed."--Book Jacket. |
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... beaches after sunrise , after there had been time in the early morning for visual shore bombardment and visual bombing of the German defenses . Since the plan called for two airborne divisions to be dropped during the night before the ...
... beaches after sunrise , after there had been time in the early morning for visual shore bombardment and visual bombing of the German defenses . Since the plan called for two airborne divisions to be dropped during the night before the ...
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... beaches existed : White 1 , on the west coast of Humboldt Bay , was the only one which could receive LSTS , and it was only 800 yards wide . Beach White 2 was on a long sandspit known as Cape Tjeweri , whose only exit was to the ...
... beaches existed : White 1 , on the west coast of Humboldt Bay , was the only one which could receive LSTS , and it was only 800 yards wide . Beach White 2 was on a long sandspit known as Cape Tjeweri , whose only exit was to the ...
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... Beaches . Ogata also knew they were possible and made his preparations there as well . On the northwest coast there were two narrow breaks in the coral , one of them only 60 yards wide and the other 160 , and these were designated White ...
... Beaches . Ogata also knew they were possible and made his preparations there as well . On the northwest coast there were two narrow breaks in the coral , one of them only 60 yards wide and the other 160 , and these were designated White ...
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
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